Wale Onawunmi

Wale serves as Group CTO and Chief Software Architect for AppZone overseeing product architecture, R&D, Technology Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, and Cognitive Computing. In addition to core technology oversight, Wale also oversees AppZone’s digital Banking product divisions.

A graduate of Computer Science with Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he finished amongst the top in his class, Wale is known as a Software Prodigy haven become versatile in many programming languages and software application packages at a very young age. Wale has gone ahead to amass more than fifteen years of experience in the modeling, design, and implementation of enterprise software. At various times he has been deeply involved with various technologies including Blockchain, serverless computing, distributed computing, embedded applications, machine learning and rapid application development frameworks amongst others.

Previously, Wale served as Head, Research & Development of Parkway Projects Limited where he was responsible for conducting research, recommending technologies and leading a team of application developers. Before Parkway Projects, Wale worked with the Nigerian arm of Enliven Solutions USA; a Software solutions company, where he served as a lead software developer.